A not so great nudge to remind me to finish deleting my site's substack account :-(

bobserve website design changes from pre and post 2023 launch.

We now have profile photos at bobserve! To add yours, go to menu:myself/myprofile and upload it there. Direct link: bobserve.com/user/profile Now you'll see your own self on the myevents page, like mine below: bobserve.com/myevents

A play-by-play of the second Night of the Hurricane 1976, as told through contemporary newspaper accounts. Plus other Bob Dylan appearances offstage and onstage afterwards in Texas. Includes confirmation of songs not previously listed with Bob Dylan's participation (Mercedes Benz, etc).

Aaaaand we're back

bobserve site is temporarily down. Normal service to resume asap. Olof's Files section is unaffected. Claude AI made 9000 site requests in hours, contributing with other bots to overrun the server. Bobserve is hand-created by artisanal coders and researchers and intended for humans not bots :-)

The 2025 Bob Dylan Yearly Chronicle is here, with a difference. It's now custom-designed for the web, including: filters and images for the Calendar, and the return of favorites like bobtalk highlights, statistics, and new tapes. Read more below, or go directly there: bobserve.com/yearlychroni...

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Wikipedia always impresses, and is well worthy of your donation. Bobserve links to its pages for musicians and venues, and only rarely are entries not found for these.

Now that Bob Dylan's acclaimed 2025 tour has concluded (what a year!), log your attendances at bobserve.com/myevents or just browse the 2025 stats at bobserve.com/dylanytics/periodoverview?datefrom=2025&dateto=2025

the bobserve series newsletter is now at blog.bobserve.com instead of Substack. Subscribe for free for news about bobserve.com, the Bob Dylan database, and related writings. Existing Substack subscriptions have already been transferred, and there's nothing you need to do.

Bobtalk for all Bob Dylan Outlaw shows has been updated by Luke Poling! He didn't say much but anything he did say was taken down by Luke and used in evidence at bobserve.com To quote the great Bob Dylan from the Outlaw tour: "Thank you" Also, this: bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

@bobserve.com Alpine Valley Outlaws. Full concert audio: archive.org/details/outl...

Congratulations to Bill Pagel for 30 years (!) of his boblinks.com Bob Dylan setlist site. I cannot recall a single concert date when he was not on duty! Incredible.

Can You Please Destroy This Record, use your arms and legs it won't ruin you

The Bob Dylan songs most frequently seen performed in person by bobserve users bobserve.com/dylanytics/m...

Read up on all the commentary on Bob Dylan's Wantagh/Jones Beach concert from Aug 1st. bobserve.com/setlist/comm...

Inputting the VA Beach July 29 Bob Dylan setlist into bobserve.

Whoever it was who said Bob Dylan doesn't talk or acknowledge his audience simply doesn't know what they're talking about

Play a selection from among hundreds of Bob Dylan performances tagged as "favorites" by bobserve users: bobserve.com/pocketsofcha... Login to tag your own favorites by tapping the star next to any song in a setlist

Bob Dylan song title caption fail... Big if true!

Good quality video links for most of last night's Bob Dylan concert June 22, 2025 Cincinnati, Ohio Riverbend Music Center bobserve.com/setlist?even...

Come get your own digital golden ticket, like Henry here!

Confirmed: May 25 '25 was Bob Dylan's shortest concert since Jun '88 (7 songs). Next shortest: 9-song sets: Jul 17, '94 cut short for rain bobserve.com/setlist?even... Jul 27, '95 opened for Rolling Stones bobserve.com/setlist?even... July 4, '05 Willie Nelson Picnic bobserve.com/setlist?even...

Bob Dylan sings Happy Birthday, 1986 Lots more here: bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

It's a good day to listen to Happy Birthday as performed at various Bob Dylan concerts. Here: bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

Bob Dylan played Rick Nelson's Garden Party last night (May 15), a song he talked about in 1986: "This is the very stage where Ricky Nelson got booed off for singing Garden Party, this is the one, the very one." bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

Last night Dylan dropped 6 songs, added 10 songs, and left 7 unchanged from the previous concert bobserve.com/setlist/setc... #BobDylan

Upgraded the look of song charts by switching to apexcharts bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

Every time Mike Peters played in concert with Bob Dylan: bobserve.com/musician?id=... Every time The Alarm opened for Bob Dylan: bobserve.com/onthebill?id...

Another fun feature on @bobserve.com is seeing the album count. Per the above post, R&RW is my most viewed album. Primarily because Bob played it in full for 5 years straight. Check out my count for "not on an album" and some other 1-2 timers.

I love lists, rankings and stats. Before Bob Dylan's Rough&Rowdy Ways tour, my most heard live songs were Highway 61, Watchtower, BoaTM, LARS, Thunder on the Mountain and Love Sick. Look how things have changed. The most surprising: I'll Be Your 👶 is #1! Thank you @dylyricus.com @bobserve.com

"So, this is a song that was on the Muhammad Ali Show. Howard Cosell was singing it. Anyway, I didn't write it for Muhammad Ali, I wrote it for one of my kids back a while ago. It was on The Band album called Planet Waves" Bob Dylan intros Forever Young Oct 7, 1978 He was talking about this:

Search 65 years of Bob Dylan spoken word in performance at bobserve.com

"You know we live in difficult times right now. I know you need something to hang on to, and I hope you got something to hang on to. I hope you got good education to hang on to. I have my life’s experience to hang on to." Bob Dylan Apr 28, 1980 Albany bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

"Anybody believe in zombies? Yeah, let's hear it for zombies! I never met any" Bob Dylan bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

bobserve.com gets bobtalk View and search decades of Bob Dylan's spoken words from the stage Plus many other new features like instrumentation detail, dylanytics stats, commentary, first/next/last, favoriting songs and shows, etc

@bobserve.com Weidner Center, Green Bay, April 6, 2025. Complete show. archive.org/details/dyla...

Just checking the bobserve April 1st mailbox....... 😂

On the importance of first lines: “I still write songs the same way I always did: I get a first line, the words and the tune together, and then I work out the rest wherever I happen to be, whenever I have time" Bob Dylan to John Rockwell Jan 1974

"Most of the time the words and melody come at the same time, usually with the first line. With me it’s usually the first line." Bob Dylan to Bill Flanagan Mar 1985

It's April 1st somewhere, right? bobserve.com/setlist?even...

April Fools rush in where angels fear to tread...

Mar 30, 2025 Topeka, KS Bob Dylan Setlist bobserve.com/setlist?even... Full audio:

JC: Take a song like I Pity The Poor Immigrant. There might have been a germ that started it. BD: Yes, the first line. (John Cohen & Happy Traum interview with Bob Dylan, June/July 1968)

Jeff Slate: how important is the first line of a song? Bob Dylan: Very important. It might not sound like something you know, but if you trust it, it will get you closer to what you do know - Nov/Dec 2022, Jeff Slate interview

What's been and what's to come. High quality full audio links for every show so far. #BobDylan bobserve.com/eventsperiod...

Bob Dylan wishing Tracy Chapman a happy birthday today. Photo likely from 1988. She opened for him at five shows in 1988, and once in 1990: bobserve.com/onthebill?id... Tracy performed together with Dylan three times in '88, and at the '92 30th Anniversary celebration: bobserve.com/musician?id=...